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Deck building/testing tool.

Hi,

I have a question to You all: is there a tool available to test deck builds in game?
I did found this: http://deckbox.shadowera.net/se/#/build
However it doesn't let You play the game with the deck choosen.

I'm thinking about implementing a tool that would let You test a deck, against other decks by Your self (You play both sides).
Just a basic PC application implemeting the game rules.
What are Your thoughts?

Sorry, I've just read back my replies from earlier and I can see they are very discouraging, but hopefully you can see the problem you mention is solved by running the client twice, with different accounts. I was doing this a couple of days ago to investigate a bug actually.

However, if you have other reasons for wanting to reimplement the game and all its card behaviours, then that's a different matter! Please can you elaborate on where you are coming from.

Former Head TCG Designer, Lead TCG Developer, Game Director and Chairman

Implementing the games rules is step one.
Step two would be investigate and try to implement an AI that would play the game.
Basically I want to try and train myself in AI development as it is an interesting matter for a developer. But that's a far and secondary goal.
The primary goal is to add value to the community.

Since I play the game and understand the rules, Shadow Era was my first choice.

The initial implementations showed that this game is fun to implement and I can go with a satisfying step-by-step (card-by-card) approach.

I do not feel discouraged, I'll go with the initial set (Call of Crytals) first, expose to the community and get some feedback.

I do understand that it can take years, initial pace is something around 1 card a day. With this pace, 2 years for 716 cards...

How goes this project? Making simple version to handle Vanilla allies like Blake and Brutalis feels like good first iteration to share. Ignore hero abilities and just have decks only with Vanilla allies.

Former Head TCG Designer, Lead TCG Developer, Game Director and Chairman

If You already have Java, just unzip the package and double click the shadow_era_game.jar file. Alternatively type: java -jar shadow_era_game.jar in Your command prompt.

To start a new game press CTRL+N, it will deal random cards to both sides.
No deck builder/import/export is yet available.
There's no end to the game, heroes will continue to get damaged even after reaching 0 HP and beyond. Just start a new game when so.

Bug reporting:
If You encounter a bug, please do the following:
1. Print screen Your game.
2. Describe expected behavior.
3. Describe actual behavior.
4. Save the game if possible and attach the save.json file.
5. Attach the shadow_era.log file (both will be created just next to the shadow_era_game.jar).

And yes, I know the UI is terrible... I'm no game designer, once everything works I'll get it to look nice.
Game cards are to small to read the description but if You hover Your mouse on a card it'll show the text in a popup.

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